Primary Metals and Fabricated Metal Products Manufacturing

Both Primary Metals Manufacturing and Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing are major industry sectors in the Youngstown-Warren region. The metals sector makes up 8% of the total GDP of the YW metro area, contributing nearly $2 billion to the economy.

Industries in the Primary Metal Manufacturing subsector smelt and/or refine ferrous and nonferrous metals from ore, pig or scrap, using electrometallurgical and other process metallurgical techniques. Establishments in this subsector also manufacture metal alloys and superalloys by introducing other chemical elements to pure metals. The output of smelting and refining, usually in ingot form, is used in rolling, drawing, and extruding operations to make sheet, strip, bar, rod, or wire, and in molten form to make castings and other basic metal products.

Industries in the Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing subsector transform metal into intermediate or end products, other than machinery, computers and electronics, and metal furniture, or treat metals and metal formed products fabricated elsewhere.